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On the photo above, Jamil Boukarabila and Pietro "Pippo" Gubellini smile
after a remarkable 2003 season during which they picked up distinctions on both
sides of the italian borders, as the Great Milanese Trotting-drivers (G.M.T.)
that they are.
The first named defended with honour the Italian colours at the World
Professional Drivers' Championship which was held in August in Moscow (6th place
despite a doubtful interpretation of the rules which did not allow him to
substitute a lame horse before the start- and when at the end of the first part
of this harness-trotting championship he was a good third, only a few points
behind the two leaders- and it was only like this that the title of
Vice-champion of the World (behind the french driver Dominik Cordeau) eluded him.
Following this, Jamil Boukarabila, the only driver from Milan to come to
reinforce a team composed mainly of drivers from the region of Padua and Trieste
(Elena Cossar, Giuliano Simionato and Silvia Talpo) was also the only driver
among the Italian and Russian professionals to be able to win a race on foreign
soil. That was how he won the most important race in the Italo-Russian
Championship held at Oufa in the Republic of Bachkortostan in front of packed
stands on the occasion of the national festival, on the 11th October 2003.
Several russian radio and television stations, broadcasting by satellite,
contributed by means of their numerous interviews to cultivate the myth of this
captain of the Italian team unbeaten in 10 years, since in 1995 Gabriele Baldi,
Jamil Boukarabila, Sandro Capenti and Duccio Parenti offered themselves the
first Italo-Russian Trotting Championship.
Pietro "Pippo" Gubellini, as for him, he beat his record of Grand Prix wins in
one season by winning no less than 17 GP's. Here is a list of them:
| GP | NAME OF THE HORSE |
| GP EUROPA | LET'S GO |
| GP CAMPO MIRAFIORI | VIDAR |
| GP TITO GIOVANARDI | DAGUET RAPIDE |
| GP CARLO CACCIARI | DELIA DI JESOLO |
| GP REPUBBLICA | VIDAR |
| GP NAZIONALE | DAGUET RAPIDE |
| GP NAZIONALE FILLY | DELIA DI JESOLO |
| GP CARLO MARANGONI | DAGUET RAPIDE |
| GP MARANGONI FILLY | DELIA DI JESOLO |
| GP CONTINENTALE | CHARIS DEL RONCO |
| DERBY DEL TROTTO | DAGUET RAPIDE |
| CRITERIUM PARTENOPEO FILLY | ETINCELLE |
| GP ORSI MANGELLI FILLY | DELIA DI JESOLO |
| CRITERIUM VINOVO FILLY | ELLYMAY |
| GRAN CRITERIUM | ELLYMAY |
| GP MEDITERRANEO | DULAL |
| GP ALLEVATORI | ELLYMAY |
So as to confirm his indisputable mastery, this Great Milanese
Trotting-driver won his 17 GP's in 2003 driving 8 different horses and also was
placed 20 times, winning a total of 1'622'136 euros. No other Italian driver
deserves more than him the title of "Mr. Grand Prix" !!
Mauro Baroncini, winner of 6 GP's in 2003 and Tiberio Cecere (Criterium
Partenopeo) complete, along with Jamil Boukarabila and Pietro "Pippo" Gubellini,
this formidable troup of Milanese Trotting musketeers.